Constantly 'reserving server'

[Aldora]

*insert grasshopper noises*

well 3+ hours no content or info, thx...

My guess is that the announcement of the "All Worlds Emergency Maintenance" is related to this particular problem we have with the Duty Finder.

In order to accompany Patch 4.55 Hotfixes, we will be performing emergency maintenance during which FINAL FANTASY XIV will be unavailable.

We apologise for any inconvenience caused and thank you for your understanding.

[Date & Time]
Feb. 15, 2019 6:00 to 10:00 (GMT)
* Completion time is subject to change.

[Affected Worlds]
All Worlds

* The World Transfer Service will be suspended 30 minutes before maintenance begins, and will be unavailable until maintenance has ended.

* Certain features in the FINAL FANTASY XIV Companion app will be unavailable until maintenance has ended.

* Any duty recorder data recorded prior to this maintenance can no longer be replayed after this maintenance.

Source: Lodestone - Maintenance section.

[Hustensaft]

My guess is that the announcement of the "All Worlds Emergency Maintenance" is related to this particular problem we have with the Duty Finder.

It's most likely to fix the Waterzuzu bug, and nothing else.

[WildFire15]

On Phoenix and had trouble with Shisui of the Violet Tides (though got into that), Pool of Tribute and the Valentione Ceremony event. Seems it's been an issue for a few days that's steadily gotten worse.

[Arrhin]

Oof, just saw this lol, posted another thread in tech support. Zalera's poopoo'd too.

[Zombiee]

Issues for me only started about 40 mins ago, can't believe it's been going on so long for some.

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

Are the instance servers actually broken, or are the instances for certain content types full?

Not sure either way, but if it's only happening during prime time than my bet is the latter.

[Vidu]

Are the instance servers actually broken, or are the instances for certain content types full?

Not sure either way, but if it's only happening during prime time than my bet is the latter.

Its 1:30 am in Europe atm and my friend just waited 17 minutes for her Airforce One Gate to pop... while maybe 5 people were standing around that Kaktor-dude - so its not prime time and its unlikely that a lot of people were doing that GATE right now. Seems to me like broken servers - they cant be that overloaded, not even with people trying the new Eureka and running the Event-dungeon.

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

Its 1:30 am in Europe atm and my friend just waited 17 minutes for her Airforce One Gate to pop... while maybe 5 people were standing around that Kaktor-dude - so its not prime time and its unlikely that a lot of people were doing that GATE right now. Seems to me like broken servers - they cant be that overloaded, not even with people trying the new Eureka and running the Event-dungeon.

Ahh, yeah that definitely sounds like an issue. Probably a coding bug more than server issues themselves.

[Mizunoko]

I understand they are splitting data centers later on, but to be honest i'm more than a bit disappointed in SE over this. I pay square enix money to access a service, and when said service isn't working it's only logical to be upset. There's also the fact that instance issues have been arising almost every patch since SB release. Every eureka installment had lag and instance issues too....so you would think at the 4th installment of eureka they would have had the idea to be prepared for this and mitigate it somehow. The lack of preparedness after MULTIPLE problems of the same category just astonishes me...it's just mind boggling. Honestly i love this game and i WANT to play, but how can i not be upset when i can't play it because SE hasn't learned how to prepare for this and do right by their paying customers. Well i guess that or they are capable to prepare, but just don't care enough to do the right thing.

[Hezhi]

I've waited for so long... Sleepy... But I can't pull back now...
Arrgh